annotated bibliography paper

English 200-11—DeAloia Annotated Bibliography for Position Paper

Due Date: October 23, 2014 (Thurs.)—Final Draft, only as an attachment on Isidore by 10 p.m.

Points: 50

Research Requirements:

· Eight annotated sources, at least four of which should be scholarly and from at least two different disciplines, MLA style. List of sources should represent:

· Sources supporting and sources refuting your position

· Sources from two or more disciplines—for example, from philosophy or history

· A variety of types of sources—not only popular and scholarly, but also articles and books, online publications and print/electronic publications

Purposes:

· To look fairly closely at a wide variety of sources

· Organize and record details of source material for possible future use

· Develop skills for finding and retrieving source material efficiently and effectively

· Complete part of work for researched position paper in advance

None of the above will work well if you cut and paste the annotation. Don't do that.

· A works cited list is a list of only the sources (works) you actually cite—that is, sources that you reference, summarize, paraphrase, or directly quote— in your paper.

· A bibliography is a list of all the works you consulted—whether or not you actually refer to them in your paper—in the course of conducting research for your paper.

· An annotated bibliography is a bibliography with an annotation—usually a paragraph or so that “notes” certain aspects of the text—inserted directly after basic publication information about the source. For our purposes, annotations are to be single paragraph descriptions of the sources.

Most importantly, include in an annotation any information about a source that will be useful to you, but do so in complete, grammatically correct sentences. Information that may ultimately be useful to you includes:

· What the work is about

· Author's credentials and biases

· Publisher's credentials and biases

· Any surrounding history/controversy

· Level of diction

· Whether/where/how you can use the source in your paper

Example (note punctuation and tabs):

Brown, Robert. Last Stand for the Big Guys: The Dilemma of Big Business in a Socialist World. New York: Harcourt, Brace,

Jovanovich, 1998. In this book, Brown—professor emeritus at University of North Carolina—discusses the position of Big Business in America. A former oil company executive, Brown’s bias is obvious. He barely looks at the issues of minimum wage or outsourcing, but spends much time investigating government interference in big business. From Brown’s perspective, big business and a social conscience don’t—and shouldn’t—mix. Brown is knowledgeable, but doesn’t care for the average worker.